{"id":218208,"date":"2026-02-27T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/california-privacy-agency-sees-surge-in-data-broker-sign-ups\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:40:10","slug":"california-privacy-agency-sees-surge-in-data-broker-sign-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/california-privacy-agency-sees-surge-in-data-broker-sign-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"California Privacy Agency Sees Surge in Data Broker Sign-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/california-privacy-agency-sees-surge-in-data-broker-sign-ups\">California Privacy Agency Sees Surge in Data Broker Sign-Ups<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/california-privacy-agency-sees-surge-in-data-broker-sign-ups\">https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/california-privacy-agency-sees-surge-in-data-broker-sign-ups<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-27 16:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.bloomberglaw.com\">news.bloomberglaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A wave of data brokers have registered with California\u2019s data deletion platform as they prepare to erase consumers\u2019 personal information starting in August. <\/p>\n<p>More than 575 data brokers have registered with California Privacy Protection Agency\u2019s Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP), the agency\u2019s board said in a Friday meeting. The first-in-the-country tool lets California residents delete all data held by brokers registered in the state via a single form that went live Jan. 1. The jump follows a steady rise in broker sign-ups after the agency creation of an enforcement strike force focused on investigating the industry\u2019s privacy violations.<\/p>\n<p>More &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/california-privacy-agency-sees-surge-in-data-broker-sign-ups\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Privacy Agency Sees Surge in Data Broker Sign-Ups https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/california-privacy-agency-sees-surge-in-data-broker-sign-ups Publish Date: 2026-02-27 16:33:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/db0ip7zd23b50.cloudfront.net\/dims4\/default\/eddff26\/2147483647\/crop\/3929x1514+0+721\/resize\/960x370%3E\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbloomberg-bna-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fff%2F6b%2F2be3d3c94625a7f0b8f75feb5b75%2Faug17-privacy.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218210,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218208\/revisions\/218210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}